the flooring is called tenderfoot hog flooring. well to answer your second question...I'm not sure just yet. this is the first time i'm using this stuff and I don't exactly know how well its going to work for little 4wk old pups but as they grow to about 6-8wks I am hoping they can walk on it good. we shall see. This is an experiment.

Looks like she's doing a good job catching on to the game.
I knew her tail would be really short. Bob patch had a small bit of afterbirth dried on the tip of his tail. At 3 days old I found it and picked it off and the very tip of the tail came off with it. I guess as it dried and tightened, it killed the tail tip it was around. His tail only grew to about three-quarters full length when grown. I saw then that tipping off a tail go's a long way to reducing length as an adult.
I know from raising Britney Spaniels that cutting the tail at 3/4" from the butt at 3 days old will leave you with a 2 1/2" stub when they're full grown. I was really surprised at that as we were only taking off about 1/2 the total length at 3 day old, so I expected that wasn't enough for the accepted look of the Britney, but cutting it only that much pretty much stopped the growth. I does not work out proportionately as you'd think(1/2 at birth = 1/2 full length as an adult). As with Brylcreem on your hair, "a little dab will do ya'".